Miss B’s Reviews > No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model > Status Update

Spiritual and philosophical, and very thoughtful. I enjoyed this part of the book about The Self, leadership and flow. For me it’s important to think of how therapeutic modalities fit into a wider world, and the compassion at the heart of IFS resonates with me.

Noting there’s a slight cultishness in this chapter. As a Sounds Like A Cult fan, I rank it “live your life!”

Completed the Fire Drill and Sad Person short exercises which were both insightful to me.

This part of the book has been speaking about attachment theory in relation to IFS which has been really interesting. I’m currently doing a lot of inner work on my anxious/slightly disorganised attachment and am keen to learn how to be the primary caregiver for myself.

I really like the transcripts from sessions in this book. good insight into how this works with different people, and how to guide myself

Lots of talk about spirituality, religion, meditation and psychedelics in this section focusing on “the self” I’m all for this kind of thinking so appreciate its inclusion but understand it might be off putting for some

These meditations are so powerful. Just completed The Path meditation, which allowed me to see the parts I am carrying. Felt what Schwartz refers to as Life Energy and a weight lifting.

These meditations are really helping me connect to myself and I’m grateful for this audiobook.

It’s all got a bit complicated now with exiles, managers, firefighters and deeper layers. I’m finding it harder to keep track. This is definitely something that requires a lot of time and patience to explore.

After some spiritual talk about connecting with the earth, which I actually appreciated, was the daily meditation which I just completed. In this I briefly met a new part, “heartbreak” and started crying. I’m finding these meditations to be really powerful and already feel a deeper connection and empathy to myself.

The working with a challenging protector meditation was a little harder, as I don’t really know these parts yet I think. But maybe this would be good when I feel intense emotions like anger.